NAME: LAURA STOTT TITLE: Instructor of English Faculty Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta DEPARTMENT: English COURSES TAUGHT: MENG 6730, Creative Writing Forms and Craft (Poetry) MENG 6760, Poetry Writing English 3260, Advanced Poetry Writing English 2270, Introduction to Writing Poetry English 2250, Introduction to Creative Writing English 2010, Intermediate College Writing (Includes Online) English 1010, Introduction to College Writing (Includes Online) RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS: Poetry; Creative Writing; Poetry and Collaboration; Environmental Field Studies and Poetry; Composition. WEBSITE: www.laurastott.poetry.com EDUCATION: EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Spokane, Washington / June 2004 Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing Emphasis: Poetry Secondary emphasis: Literary Editing Fellowship: Managing Editor, Willow Springs Thesis: Painting of a Woman, a collection of poems BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, Provo, Utah / December 2001 Bachelor of Art, English Literature Internship: Editor of Inscape PUBLICATIONS (POETRY): Books: In the Museum of Coming and Going. Poems. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2014. Print.
Journals and Literary Magazines: Anthologies: Monster. Copper Nickel 21. (2015): 4. Print. Rachel and For Alberti. Rock and Sling 10. (2015): 62, 88. Print. The Dreaming Youths. Literature and Belief 34.2. (2014): viii. Print. Faith. Cutbank 79. (2013): 146-147. Print. Absence and Into the Blue. Sugar House Review. (2012): 58-59. Print. In the workshop and My fingers are growing roses Crate Literary Magazine 8. (2012): 59-60. Print. Dzongri Top and In days gone by Bellingham Review 63. (2011): 203-205. Print. Blue City of Rajasthan and Across the Mojave Desert. Literature and Belief 31.1. (2011): 93, 108-109. Print. Alaska evenings are kind, Is this dark too much for us?, Taiya Houses, and Winter and Away. Weber: The Contemporary West 27.2. (2011): 117-120. Print. City of Shiva. Rock and Sling 6.1. (2011): 46. Print. Bone of My Hand and The Girl with No Hands. Eclipse 21. (2010): 162-163. Print. February and In the Garden. Crab Creek Review 23.1 (2010): 90-91. Print. Over Lunch, This Time in February, and You served birdsongs. Sugar House Review 2.1. (2010): 51-53. Print. Never a Trace. Hayden s Ferry Review 45. (2009): 145. Print. Ganpati Guest House, July 27 and Yes, Madam. Redactions 12. (2009): 30-33. Print. Elegies. Sonora Review 49. (2005): 57. Print. As Goodbye Became and Life of the Desert Song. The Laurel Review 39.1. (2005). Print. The End of All Play and Song with Scientists. LitRag 19. (2005): 11-12. Print. Blue watches the crazy man and Orange Answers. Redactions 3. (2004): 22-24. Print. Stranded on a Nine Mile and Ode to the Falling Sky. Diner. (2004): 2-4. Print. A Kind of Apple Picking, The Fall, and A Kind of Bird Watching. Weber Studies 22.1. (2004): 69-71. Print. Speaks Blue. Quarterly West 50. (2000): 24. Print.
The Girl With No Hands ; The Fall ; and Monster. Helicon West Anthology: A Ten Year Celebration of Featured Readers. Ed. Star Coulbrooke. Logan, UT: Helicon West Press, 2016: 85-86. Print. Garden Before Isaac. All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood. Ed. Elise Gregory and Emily Gwinn. Spokane, WA: Sage Hill Press, 2016: 200. Print. The Fall ; Blue City of Rajasthan ; Ganpati Guest House ; The Girl with No Hands ; and Across the Mojave Desert. Fire In the Pasture: 21 st Century Mormon Poets. Ed. Tyler Chadwick. 1 st ed. Kansas City, MO: Peculiar Pages Press, October 2011: 399-405. Print. Interviews / Conversations Sunday Blog Read: Laura Stott. 15 Bytes. Artists of Utah, Utah s Art Magazine. 21 February 2016. Web. A Conversation with Laura Stott by Kathryn Smith. Rock and Sling, 10 (2015). Print. CURRENT PROJECTS The Blue Nude Migration: Poetry and painting collaboration and book manuscript with visual artist, Katheryn Stott. (In Progress) Inside the Bear s Mouth (working title). Book of poems. (In Progress) COMMUNITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE Visiting Writer, Indian Hills Middle School, Sandy, Utah: 7 th Grade Honor s English. National Poetry Month Poetry Class. April 2016. Visiting Writer. Taught poetry class with Rob Carney. Utah Valley University. January 2015. Poetry Workshop. Community Education, Salt Lake City School District. West High School Community Learning Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. Winter Quarter 2013. Online Teaching Certification: Blackboard Vista and Canvas/Instructure. 2009, 2013. Writer in Residence. Alta High School, Sandy, Utah. January 2006. Writer in Residence. Skagway City School. Skagway, Alaska. September 2004. Writers in the Community (specifically Elementary Schools) Spokane, Washington. 2003 2004. EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE LITERARY SUB-COMMITTEE MEMBER. Ogden City Arts Advisory Council. Ogden City Poet Laureate Search, 2015. GRANT WRITER AND FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIR, Writers@Work Board. 2013-2015.
EDITOR/WRITER, Memoirs Ink, May 2010 January 2011 Edited, wrote, and organized biography for publication and/or personal use for client (Holocaust Survivor, Kraków, Poland). MANAGING EDITOR, Willow Springs (National Literary Journal), 2003 2004. ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR, Willow Springs (National Literary Journal), 2002-2003. EDITOR, Inscape (Student Literary Journal), Brigham Young University, 2000 2001. EDITORIAL STAFF, Touchstones (Student Literary Journal), Utah Valley State College, 1998-1999. INVITED READINGS AND PRESENTATIONS Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium. Provo, Utah. January 27, 2017. King s English Bookstore. Salt Lake City, Utah. November 17, 2016. City Art Meltdown. City Art Reading Series. Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch, Salt Lake City, Utah. September 2016. Ragged Edge Art Gallery, Blue Nude Migration Poetry and Painting Collaboration Exhibit and Presentation with Katheryn Stott (artist). Gettysburg, PA. August 2016. 15 Bytes Book Awards. Weller Book Works, Trolley Square. Salt Lake City, Utah. October 2015. Idaho State University. Pocatello, Idaho. September 2015. City Art Meltdown. City Art Reading Series. Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch, Salt Lake City, Utah. September 2015. Ragged Edge Art Gallery, In the Museum of Coming and Going Poetry and Collaboration Exhibit with Katheryn Stott (artist). Reading and Gallery Showing. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. August 2015. Get Lit! Festival, Spokane, Washington. April 2015. Book Signing. AWP Conference and Bookfair. Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 2015. Utah Valley University. Student Center. Orem, Utah. March 2015. Weller Book Works, Trolley Square. Salt Lake City, Utah. February 2015. Collaboration with Weber State University Illustration Students for my book, In the Museum of Coming and Going. : Project Gallery (Kimball Visual Arts Building at Weber State University). Illustration exhibit held February 26 March 6, 2015. Reading February 12, 2015. Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium. Provo, Utah. January 2015. Book Launch: In the Museum of Coming and Going. Performed a collaboration of poetry and music (with Jake Rogers). Good Company Theater, Historic 25 th Street, Ogden, Utah. October 2014. Helicon West, Utah State University, Logan City Library, Logan, Utah. October 2014.
Creative Writing Reading Series with Caitlin Horrocks. Fireplace Lounge, Shepherd Union Building, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, October 2014. Utah Humanities Book Festival, City Art Reading Series. Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah, September 2014. Faculty Reading. Weber State University, February 2014. How to Publish Panel, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, October 2013. Sugar House Review Book Launch. Ken Sanders Rare Books. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2012. Memoir s Ink Spoken Word Salon, Culver City, California, April 2011. City Art Foundation Poetry Reading, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2007. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND RECOGNITIONS Finalist, 2015 15 Bytes Book Award. Category: Poetry. Shortlisted, 2015 Utah Book Award. Category: Poetry. Utah Book Award Reception. 2015 MFA Alumni Award, Inland Northwest Center for Writers, Eastern Washington University. Hemingway Faculty Vitality Grant, awarded by the Research, Scholarship and Professional Growth Committee, Weber State University, April 2014. Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2014. Finalist, 2013 New Issues Poetry Prize (New Issues Poetry and Prose, Western Michigan University Press) for full length poetry collection, In the Museum of Coming and Going. Nominated by Bellingham Review for Best New Poets 2012. Published by Meridian, Charlottesville, VA. Semi-Finalist. Dorothy Sergeant Rosenberg Poetry Awards, 2011. Awarded Graduate Service Appointment, Willow Springs, Eastern Washington University. Fall 2003 Spring 2004. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWP Conference and Bookfair. Conference attendee. Los Angeles, California, 2016. AWP Conference and Bookfair. Book Signing with New Issues Poetry and Prose, Bookfair and Conference attendee. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2015. Undergraduate Research Symposium, Served as a Faculty Mentor, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, April, 2014. Writers at Work 2014 Conference. Poetry workshop with Ellen Bass. Alta Lodge, Alta, Utah, June 4-8, 2014.
Poetry Workshop with Nance Van Winckel. Writers at Work, Pierre Lassonde House, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Ut. April 2014. Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. Chapter Sponsor training and convention attendee. Savannah, Georgia. March 2014. Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Joel Long. Writers at Work, Pierre Lassonde House, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Ut. October 2013. Master Class in Poetry, Workshop with Christopher Howell, Cannon Beach, Oregon, August 14-19, 2011. The Writer s Mind: Writing the Personal Essay, Six week course in creative nonfiction with Felice Austin, C.Ht, Culver City, CA, February-March, 2011. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Writers @ Work Board Member, Utah based, nationally-known, independent writer s organization that promotes and supports the creative writing community. November 2012-Present. *Board responsibilities include: Grant Writer, Fellowship Competition Committee Chair Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2007-Present. Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society, Fall 2013-Present.